Wear earplugs when you sleep at night — even if you don't need them to block out noise.

That goes double for you people in Florida.

For the second time in about a month, a cockroach has crawled deep into the ear of a sleeping Sunshine State resident and made itself comfortable.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Blake Collins went straight to the hospital after he felt —and heard — the insect intruding in his ear canal.

"I could hear his legs inside me. It felt like someone was shoving a Q-tip all the way inside my head and there was nothing I could do to stop it," he told the paper.

A doctor used a syringe to squirt Lidocaine into Collins' ear, which allowed him to intimately experience the death throes of a distressed cockroach.

"When he poured the Lidocaine in, I could feel him go super, super fast, kicking and try to dig its way out, and a faint little squeal and then two minutes later, it just stopped and he died," Collins said. "I heard it die in my head."

But before it died, the German cockroach, laid an egg sac. Fortunately, the doctor was able to fish out the egg case, which can contain up to 50 baby creepy-crawlies.

Earlier last month, a Florida woman suffered a similarly gruesome ear invasion and went to a hospital ER, the Washington Post reported. Doctors killed the cockroach, which they mistook for a juvenile, and removed what they thought was its whole body.

It wasn't. The corpse of a full-grown palmetto remained lodged in her ear for nine days.

Why do cockroaches love to crawl into the ears of sleeping humans?

The Verge recently posed that question to Coby Schal, an entomologist at North Carolina State University.

Cockroaches are, of course, most active at night when people are asleep. They like warm, humid, protected places where it's safe to rest or grab a snack.

Yes, when roaches want to get away from it all, they seek sanctuary in a cozy man cave. And nothing is more literally a man cave than the human ear canal.

A German cockroach (Blatella germanica) skittered into the ear of sleeping Florida man last month (May 2018). Blake Collins had to have the insect killed and extracted at a local hospital.

A German cockroach (Blatella germanica) skittered into the ear of sleeping Florida man last month (May 2018). Blake Collins had to have the insect killed and extracted at a local hospital.

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A German cockroach (Blatella germanica) skittered into the ear of sleeping Florida man last month (May 2018). Blake Collins had to have the insect killed and extracted at a local hospital.

A German cockroach (Blatella germanica) skittered into the ear of sleeping Florida man last month (May 2018). Blake Collins had to have the insect killed and extracted at a local hospital.

Schal explained that cockroaches find chemicals known as volatile fatty acids, which are released by fermented foods like beer, bread and cheese, irresistible. To a roach, earwax smells like a nicely aged asiago.

Invariably, the human reacts by frantically trying to extract the intruder, which often causes the roach to burrow deeper until it gets stuck. If it survives, it can last for about a week without food or water.

If, however, it ends up squished by the prodding and scratching, its spilled body contents can release hordes of bacteria. The bacteria can cause infections that could potentially lead to hearing loss.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have a cockroach scurry into your ear, get to a hospital as soon as possible.

If you are nowhere near a hospital, try flushing your ear passage with mineral oil or olive oil.

The worst thing you can do is to use a Q-tip as a battering ram.

Roaches crawling into ears is a relatively rare occurrence, and most people have little to fear from the revolting critters. Still, a 1993 study of ear foreign-body removal found that one hospital in Los Angeles County had 43 cases of cockroach ear over the course of one year.